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PSXE Poll Update: Sony Fans Log Plenty Of PSN Hours

Our poll two weeks ago found that the vast majority of Sony followers were willing to stick with the PlayStation Network, despite the recent downtime.

But what do those results matter if we have a readership that doesn't really utilize the Network's services all that often? Hence, the second poll: and as it turns out, the majority of gamers are on the Network at least 3 hours per week, and more than 1/3 say they spend over 15 hours - i.e., the brunt of their entertainment week - on the PSN. Therefore, it really does seem as if the fans stuck by Sony through all of this, and the traffic spike after the Network returned in the past 24 hours is even more proof of their loyalty. Of course, one could make the argument that because it's free, it's easy to stick around. Yeah, well, consumers were plenty ticked off but it seems cooler heads prevailed.

This week, it's back to full-on gaming, and just in time, too. One of the most anticipated titles of the year lands on Tuesday: Rockstar's L.A. Noire. We can't wait to get started; how about you? Have you been anxiously awaiting it's arrival? Are you on the fence? Waiting for reviews? Just don't care at all? Let us know.

Yep. It seems that in most cases as long as you've activated the PS3 on your PSN account and downloaded something from the Store at some point on that system, you can. It doesn't have to be the very first PS3 you ever used.

I was able to change my main (Can) account's password via PS3, but had to use the e-mail method for my alternate (UK) account, for no reason that I can see. I created both accounts on the same system, in both cases before it YLOD'd and was sent for repair.

Yes, I am highly anticipating probably 2011's 2nd most wanted game! I am getting it D1P for $40.98 with .99 release day delivery from Amazon with $15.00 credit! Cannot beat this great deal!I will be putting the $15.00 credit towards iNFAMOUS 2!!Last edited by CrusaderForever on 5/15/2011 11:30:51 PM

Ah, thanks. How do you get items off of it though? I need 11 referrals do you just need people to sign up with the link in the 'Refer friends' tab and once they sign up you get 1/11? Is that how it works?

PSXers in Japan and Asia may be in for a slightly longer wait for PSN to return. The Japanese government apparently wants further assurances about security. I'm sure that other Japanese companies operating entertainment networks will be utterly entertained by this governmental interference since it will no doubt visit them next. You have to wonder what kind of assurances Sony is supposed to give considering that no one really knows ahead of time how a hack will happen, or when.

Two downvotes for reporting an entirely factual story? Good god, there must be some people desperate to downvote out there. Not that I care at all about the votes, it's just really off that some people have such a distorted view of reality that they think an entirely factual report needs to be downvoted.

I'm getting it on day one but not without reservations. I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to get into it. But there's no way I can pass it up, atleast I don't wanna regret passing on it. I did that with heavy rain, and that was a mistake. Although waiting to get it allowed me to experience it with move first. ;)Last edited by bigrailer19 on 5/16/2011 12:50:39 AM

I wish I could pick L.A. Noire up on Day 1, but my new car won't ready and my current car is certainly not up to another 750km. It's dead I tells ya. That being the case, it'll be at my earliest convenience which will be next Thursday. Please don't taunt me too much PSXE. I'm excited enough already. But damn... next week should be REAL good. :D
Peace.

YAY! Australia finally has a release date for inFamous 2. June 9... Crap, it's a Thursday. And WKC2 comes out June 3. Ah well. At least L.A. Noire is set in stone, and I'll be able to play it for an extra couple of days.

The servers are getting hammered by password reset requests, apparently the emails resulting from the resets are taking time to clear because some ISPs are not processing them quickly. So they queue up on the server and Sony has had to take the system down for short periods to allow the queue to clear. It's clearing gradually though.

allot of people are having problems because apparently ISPs are throttling emails because of the sheer number.they have a post on the EU blog explaining this.stupid thing is sony say some emails have taken 30 hours to be received.but the link in them is expired in 20.so what use is a expired link?they know some instances have taken 30 hours, so they put a limit of 24?oooooooooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.yup its confirmed, common sense is now non existent in this world!

This was to be expected... maybe Sony should have turned PSN on over a period of a week, 2 states per day... rather do it slowly and not have anymore issues...

It just ends up harming Sony's image more, which is what is not wanted. All this remains in the customers mind... long term effect rather than short term, especially when it comes to purchasing the next PlayStation...

Sigh... I hope it all goes well... I am still not able to get onto PSN!

Qubex, I think Sony wanted the entire network back up for online play as soon as possible. dragging this out over days or weeks would, I think, have made things worse. It's bad enough that Japan's regulators are currently blocking the restoration in Japan.

The password reset traffic will gently fade and the short outages needed to clear the backlog will be forgotten.

Sony did the right thing. I havnt had any issues everyone I know hasn't. On twitter people from Europe were getting pretty irate that the PSN restoration went smoothly in the US, yet they hadn't gotten it up their yet. Prolonging it would make things worse. The types of problems people are having because of heavy traffic is the types of issues you get with every CoD game at launch. This is nothing big at all.

im lucky if i put in a hour a week PSN time.only use it for downloading demos, or sometimes downloading PSN games.i get enough abuse at work then to sign on and have a 8 year old screaming in my ear and crappy RMB playing so loud my windows feel like there going to break, lord knows how his feel!

speaking of LA Noire it got pushed forward a day!woot!knew this would happen, games NEVER release on fridays!in fact i dont think a game has released on a friday this gen, last game that was suppose to release on friday was ninja gaiden sigma but then that ended up being pushed forward to thursday too.sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cant wait to play LA Noire, after reading the GI review of it im even more excited to play it!

one habit thats been going on allot lately that i hope stops is reviews.whats going on?games use to get reviews weeks before release, hell i remember reading the enter the matrix review a good 6 weeks before release!WTFs happened?pretty much every single game released this year has had its review held back till the week of release, if not the day of release.what gives?are publishers that worried crappy reviews will hurt there sales?well simple solution folks, dont make crappy games!

allot of people rely on reviews to base there opinion on whether they should buy it or not.kinda hard to do that if the reviews come out on release date, especially here if you want to pick up a game you pretty much have to preorder it!even with the 6+ stores around me, if i dont preorder a game good luck finding it within a month of release!hell i was lucky to get BRINK, i went in on release day JB were sold out, EB were sold out, GAME were sold out, Kmart were sold out, target were sold out, bigW were sold out!i was lucky though, i went back to EB to grab fallout NV instead and the manager told me a customer came in and did not want his preorder of brink so i could purchase it.tis why i make sure i preorder my games at least 2 weeks in advance because if i dont good luck finding them!

not many people buy them thats why they sell out so quickly.u read the latest GI yet?theres a article in there about the R18.if its not passed at next months SAG, apparently there going to do it by state.only bad thing is if they do it by state they have the power to remove the MA 15+ rating in there state.so everything MA will become R,totally stupid!imagine how much this is going to hurt game sales!they dont exactly sell well as it is, but restricting what 80% of the sales to 18 and over?not exactly a brilliant idea to boost the economy!

Oh that's stupidity. The ACB is a country wide standard, so how can they get away with restricting it to each state? More importantly, why do away with the MA rating? It's not as though EVERY game is deserving of an R18+ restriction. It can be argued that many are, but most of what's in my collection doesn't come close to touching the R rated films I have (Predator collection and A Clockwork Orange). Politicians... There's scarcely a brain cell among them.
Peace.Last edited by Lawless SXE on 5/16/2011 2:29:06 PM

not all deserve a R rating, bug most do.IMO assassins creed, GOW, GTA,MK, ect,ect are not suitable for 15.a better idea would be to remove the M rating, and just have g, pg, ma, and r.dont need m, bump pg up to where m use to be.restricting games to a m or a r rating is just stupid!oh well, if thats what it takes to get a r18 rating in, then so be it!stupid thing is if they dont pass it at the SAG, then its up to each states attorney general to account it.so QLD may not get it, but SA could, but NSW does not.its just stupid, what one state has, all states should have!this is just dividing up the country.

I think a big factor as to why people are still willing to stick with Sony is because they have a track record of supplying us with quality products.

Plus they are a company that has shown us that even when they are down, they will what ever it takes to build back up. ei all do the critism in the start of this gaming gen and 360 getting a head start. Also this whole hacker issue with their online services. They have demonstrated precisely what a stand up type business should be doing to let their customers know they are a business that you can put your faith in.Last edited by shadowscorpio on 5/16/2011 3:17:24 AM

ahhh... PSN is back on & suprisingly i used it but not as much time before it was cut off. it feels GREAT now i no longer have to hear folks complaining over the folks who was jus saying.

i hardlynotice the polls on this website i missed plenty previous 1z i will make effort to participate in them more. jus did my vote for Noire. it looks incredible & promising looks like a combination of Heavy Rain & GTA.

Have you played any of the early PS3 exclusives? Like Resistance Fall of Man, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, MGS4? You know, the classics. Anyone of those games are must haves, can't imagine missing out on these ones.

InFamous was great fun, can't wait for 2. Also there is Valkyria Chronicles, as you can see by my pic, I love that game. Also it goes without saying that Killzone2 is a must, could not believe my eyes when I first started playing that game, but the gameplay is also amazing, very different in feel from other FPS. That's all I can think of right now, if anything else pops up in my head will let you know.Happy gaming!

My wife saw the commercial for LA Noir last week when we were watching some tv together.

She asked me to get it... I just stared at her... she is anything BUT a gamer. She said, "What? It looks like it might be fun like Heavy Rain!" I half-jokingly responded by saying, "I've never loved you more than I find myself loving you right now."

Considering the fact that I love noir to a possibly disturbing amount I have little to no interest in this game. I don't know why but nothing about it reaches out to me. Hopefully they will give the noir genre its due respect and glory and I can save up for inFamous 2.